Kelly Kerwin
producer
Curator
dramaturg
E D U C A T I O N
MFA Yale School of Drama, Dramaturgy/Dramatic Criticism, 2015
BFA The Theatre School at DePaul, Dramaturgy/Dramatic Criticism, 2008
A R T I S T I C L E A D E R S H I P
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, Under the Radar, The Public Theater, 2020-present
LINE PRODUCER, The Public Theater, 2016-present
PERFORMANCE CURATOR AND CO-FOUNDER, Salonathon, 2011-2012; 2020 PRODUCER, BRIC Arts Open Festival, April 2019
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CURATOR, Pop! A Pop-Up Performance Festival, 2016
ARTIST SERVICES COORDINATOR, International Festival of Arts and Ideas, 2014-2015
CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, Yale Cabaret, 2013-2014 Season
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, Collaboraction (Chicago), 2011-2012
LINE PRODUCER, Atlantic Theater Company's The Next Page, 2009
L I T E R A R Y / I N S T I T U T I O N A L D R A M A T U R G Y LITERARY ASSOCIATE, Yale Repertory Theatre, 2014-2015 Season
LITERARY MANAGER, The House Theatre of Chicago, 2010-2011 LITERARY APPRENTICE, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 2010-2011 Season LITERARY ASSOCIATE (INTERIM), Atlantic Theater Company, 2009
LITERARY INTERN, Atlantic Theater Company, 2008
E D I T O R I A L MANAGING EDITOR: Yale Theater Management Knowledge Base, 2015-2016
RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Sustain Arts at Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Hauser Institute, 2015-2016
RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Surveillance Technologies in Performance by
Elise Morrison, 2015
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Theater Magazine, 2012-2013
T E A C H I N G , G U E S T S P E A K I N G, & U N I V E R S I T Y S E R V I C E
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, Theater Department, Connecitcut College, 2020-present
GUEST LECTURER, Dramaturg and Design, The New School, 2020
GUEST SPEAKER, Advanced Dramaturgy, The Theatre School at DePaul, 2020
GUEST SPEAKER, Intro to Dramaturgy, Yale College, 2019 DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of
Drama, 2013-2015
COORDINATOR, Hot Topics Lectures Series for Global Performance and
Theater, Yale School of Drama, 2013-2015
MENTOR, Dwight/Edgewood Project, Yale School of Drama, 2013 TEACHING ASSISTANT, Editing + Publishing Workshop, Yale School of
Drama, 2012
DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, The Theatre
School at DePaul, 2005-2008
P R O D U C T I O N W O R K
P R O D U C I N G
THE LINE* (Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen), Line Producer, The Public Theater Digital Summer Season, 2020
A SHINING LIGHT: An Online Benefit (Steve Cosson), Line Producer, The Civilians Theater Company, 2020
THE VAGRANT TRILOGY (Mona Mansour, dir. Mark Wing-Davey), Line Producer, The Public Theater, (On hold until 2021)
A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY (Tony Kushner, dir. Oskar Eustis), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2019
SOFT POWER* (David Henry Hwang, Jeanine Tesori, dir. Leigh Silverman), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2019
SELF PORTRAITS* (Phillip Howze, dir Stevie Walker-Webb), Producer, The Open Festival at BRIC Arts, 2019
WE’RE ONLY ALIVE FOR A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME* (David Cale, dir. Robert Falls), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2019
GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY* (Conor McPherson), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2018 NOW AWAITING RETURN TO BROADWAY 2021
CYPRUS AVENUE (David Ireland, dir. Vicky Featherstone), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2018
MLIMA’S TALE* (Lynn Nottage, dir. Jo Bonney), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2018
BLACK LIGHT (Daniel Alexander Jones), Line Producer, Joe’s Pub @ The Public Theater, 2018
LET IT SHINE (Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit), Line Producer, Joe's Pub, 2017
LAZARUS Film Shoot (dir. Ivo Van Howe), Producer, New York Theatre Workshop, 2016
YALE SCHOOL OF DRAG (3rd Annual), Producer, Co-Curator, Co-Host, Yale Cabaret, 2015
LOOK UP, SPEAK NICELY, AND DON'T TWIDDLE YOUR FINGERS ALL THE TIME* (Emily Zemba, dir. Ato Blankson-Wood), Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2014
MYSTERY BOY* (Chris Bannow & Helen Jaksch), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2014
WE FIGHT WE DIE (Timothy Guillot, dir by Jireh Holder), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret 2014
YALE SCHOOL OF DRAG (2nd Annual), Producer, Co-Curator, Yale Cabaret, 2014
HAVE I NONE (Edward Bond, dir. Jessica Holt), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2014
DERIVATIVES* (by Jabari Brisport & Ensemble, dir. Cole Lewis), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2013
RADIO HOUR* (by Paula Bennett, Steve Brush, Tyler Keiffer), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2013
CHICAGOLAND THE MUSICAL* (by Ike Holter), Producer, Chopin Theatre, Chicago, 2010
THE NEXT PAGE Reading Series, Line Producer, Atlantic Theater Company, 2009
F E S T I V A L P R O D U C I N G
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL 2021, Associate Producer and Producer for the Devised Theater Working Group, The Public Theater
Artists include: 600 Highwaymen, Whitney White & Peter Mark Kendall, Teatro Anónimo, Piehold, The Javaad Alipoor Company, Inua Ellam
Devised Theater Working Group: Savon Bartley, Nile Harris, Miranda Haymon, Eric Lockley, Raelle Myrick-Hodges, Mia Rovegno, Justin Elizabeth Sayre,
and Mariana Valencia
ONASSIS FESTIVAL: DEMOCRACY IS COMING, Festival Producer, The Public Theater, Joe’s Pub, LaMaMa, Astor Place, 2019
Artists include: Lena Kitsopoulou; Euripides Laskaridis; 600 Highwaymen; Choir! Choir! Choir! w/ Patti Smith
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL 2019, Festival Producer, The Public, Joe's Pub, Skirball, BRIC Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, SVA Film, 2019
Artists include: Tania el Khoury; Manual Cinema; Flaco Navaja; New Saloon; Lola Arias; Rude Mechs; Ifeoma Fafunwa; Plexus Polaire; The Kilbanes
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL 2018, Festival Producer, The Public, Joe's Pub, Skirball, BRIC Arts, Japan Society, LaMaMa, 2018
Artists include: Toshi Reagon; Andrew Schneider; Nature Theater of Oklahoma; Dickie Beau; Wang Chong; Choir! Choir! Choir! w/ David Byrne
POP! A POP-UP PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL, Producer/Artistic Director/Curator, The Party Line/Various Venues & Public Spaces in Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2016
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS, Main Stage Artist Services Coordinator, 2015
Artists include: Mark Morris Dance Group; Angélique Kidjo; Ibeyi; Darlene Love; Lucinda Williams; Kurt Elling with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS, Main Stage Artist Services Coordinator, 2014
Artists include: Lalah Hathaway & Ruben Studdard; Regina Carter; The Gloaming; Martha Redbone Roots Project
SKETCHBOOK FESTIVAL (12th Annual), Associate Producer, Curatorial Team, Collaboraction, 2012
Artists include: Dean Evans; Meredith Miller; Ike Holter; The New Colony; Carlos Murillo; Kevin O'Donnell + Kasey Foster; Kristin Idaszak; Greg Moss
STRAPPED Play Festival, Producing Director, The Inconvenience, Chicago 2010
POST TRAUMATIC Play Festival, Producing Director, The Inconvenience, Chicago 2009
P E R F O R M A N C E C U R A T I O N
SALONATHON, "SalonathOnline" weekly online series, Curator, 2020
Artists include: Ato Blankson-Wood; Dickie Beau; Whitney White; Arturo Soria; Modesto Flako Jimenez; Michael Breslin + Patrick Foley; Chalia La Tour
UNDER THE RADAR'S DEVISED THEATER WORKING GROUP, Curation Team, 2019
Artists include: Sean Donovan; Aya Ogawa; Lorelei Ramirez; Sam Schanwald with Caitlin Ryan O'Connell; Eva Von Schweinitz; Whitney White
DESSERT: A QUEER PERFORMANCE SERIES, Curator, Next Door at New York Theater Workshop, 2018
Artists include: Ryan Haddad; Joseph Keckler; Brian Rady; Sam Schandwald; Maybe Burke;Shannon Matesky's Queer Abstract; Sylvan Oswald; Jerome Ellis
UNDER THE RADAR'S DEVISED THEATER WORKING GROUP, Curation Team, 2018
Artists include: George & Co.; harunalee; Kareem M. Lucas; Modesto Flako Jimenez; Annie Saunders with Becca Wolff; Peter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey
POP! A POP-UP PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL, Producer/Artistic Director/Curator, The Party Line/Various Venues & Public Spaces in Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2016
Artists include: Ato Blankson-Wood; Shannon Matesky; James Cusati-Moyer; Hunter Kaczorowski; Lydia Blaisdell; Lauren Zeftel; Doll Parts; Phillip Howze
SALONATHON, "Applied Studies Showcase" weekly series, Curator, Chicago's Beauty Bar, 2011-2012
Artists include: Joel Kim Booster; Ike Holter; Tien Tran; The Fly Honeys; Philip Sparkle; Shannon Matesky; Kasey Foster; Blake Russell; Calamity West
D R A M A T U R G Y
SUPERSTITIONS* (by Emily Zemba, dir. Jenna Worsham), The Pool/New Ohio Theater, upcoming Fall 2021
SELF PORTRAITS* (by Phillip Howze, dir. Margot Bordelon), Lincoln Center Education, 2016
DEER AND THE LOVERS* (by Emily Zemba, dir. Sara Holdren), 10th Carlotta Festival, Yale School of Drama, 2015
THE SEAGULL (dir. Jessica Holt) Iseman Theater/Director’s Thesis, Yale School of Drama, 2014
TINY BOYFRIEND* (by Phillip Howze, dir. Sara Holdren), Langston Hughes Festival, Yale School of Drama, 2013
LOTTIE IN THE LATE AFTERNOON* (by Amelia Roper, dir. Ethan Heard), 8th Carlotta Festival, Yale School of Drama, 2013
THE TWINS WOULD LIKE TO SAY (dir. Whitney Dibo & Lauren Dubowski), Yale Cabaret, 2013
HIT THE WALL* (by Ike Holter, dir. Eric Hoff), Steppenwolf's Garage Repertory Series, 2012
OBLIVION* (by Carly Mensch, dir. Matt Miller), Steppenwolf’s First Look Repertory of New Work, 2011
LOOM* (by Ike Holter, dir. Dav Yendler), The Inconvenience’s Fresh Meat Reading Series, 2011
HURRAH FOR THE NEXT WHO DIES* (by Mark Mason, dir. Damon Kiely), The Athenaeum, The Theatre School at DePaul, 2008
THE SPARROW* (Conceived by Nathan Allen with words by Chris Mathews and Jake Minton), The House Theatre of Chicago & Steppenwolf Garage, 2007
HAMLET (dir. Lisa Portes), Merle Reskin Theater, The Theatre School at DePaul, 2007
THE TRIAL (dir. Dexter Bullard), Merle Reskin Theater, The Theatre School at DePaul, 2006
THE BFG (dir. Ernie Nolan), Chicago Playworks for Families and Young Audiences, 2006
D I R E C T I N G
COME BACK RICHARD SIMMONS* (conceived with and written by Emily Zemba), Ars Nova’s ANT FEST, 2017
WE KNOW EDIE LA MINX HAD A GUN* (written with Helen Jaksch and Emily Zemba), Brooklyn's Standard Toykraft, The Party Line, 2016
ROSE AND THE RIME (by Nathan Allen, Chris Mathews, Jake Minton), Yale Cabaret, 2014
WE KNOW EDIE LA MINX HAD A GUN* (written with Helen Jaksch and Emily Zemba), Yale Cabaret, 2013
VIGILANTE* (by Ike Holter), Collaboraction's Sketchbook XII, Chicago, 2012
KURT VONNEGUT’S 2BRØ2B* (co-adaptor with Ike Holter) City Lit Art of Adaptation Festival, Chicago, 2011
CHICAGOLAND THE MUSICAL* (by Ike Holter), Chopin Theatre, The Inconvenience, Chicago, 2010
Assistant Directing:
ANGELS IN AMERICA: PARTS 1 AND 2 (dir. Charles Newell), Court Theatre, Chicago, 2012
ODRADEK* (by Brett Nevue, dir. Dexter Bullard), The House Theatre of Chicago, 2010
GIRLS VS. BOYS* (by Nathan Allen, Chris Mathews, Jake Minton, dir. Nathan Allen), The House Theatre of Chicago, 2010
HATFIELD AND McCOY* (by Shawn Pfautsch, dir. Matthew Hawkins), The House Theatre of Chicago, 2007
*world premiere